Jennifer from Florida searches for her Slovak half-brother.

She has been trying to find him the moment she learnt about his existence a few months ago."I am looking for my half-brother, who was born in Krupina around 1949 or 1950," Jennifer Brooks from Florida wrote in her e-mail sent to the Slovak Spectator.

Before her father escaped to the USA during communism, he had been in a relationship. What he did not know was that his girlfriend, who remained in Czechoslovakia, was pregnant.

It was only this summer that Brooks found out that the girlfriend had visited her aunt and grandmother, saying that she had a baby her father did not know about.Brooks knows very little, though.

Her half-brother was born in Krupina and he should be 68 years old. She is now asking for help with finding him.

Koloman had to flee to surviveKoloman Vladimiacuter Bodo is Brooks' father. He was born in Lazany, near Krupina in central Slovakia.

During his time spent in the region, Bodo had a girlfriend, whom he met in Krupina.Her brother was working at the Ministry of Agriculture at that time, and Bodo somehow used to be working there between 1946 and 1949 as well.

When the communist purges took place after the coup in 1948, the lives of many people abruptly changed."My father was threatened to death by the communists, so he had to escape one night in 1949,"...